A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 33: Ghosts Never Rest

As the smoke and debris began to settle within the warehouse, Miracle stood in the middle of the room calmly. The scientist were hunched over the large machines with horrified looks upon their faces. Some of the scientists had splotches covering their bodies, while other looked perfectly fine except for the haunting expression of dying left on their faces.

"Is that all of them?" Sonic asked as he slid one of the scientist off a machine.

"Every single one of them." Miracle smiled proudly. "Told you I wouldn't let you down."

Sonic sat down at a computer and began to typing away as different files began to pop up on the monitor. Aphrodite walked over to Sonic and stood behind him as she watched with her violet eyes as the different files came onto the screen. "Every heard of a mouse suga?" She asked in her thick southern accent.

"I don't like using them." Sonic shrugged.

"Whatever." She shrugged as she walked away to join the other members on the main floor of the warehouse.

"So what exactly are we looking for Sonic?" Shocker asked in his thick Scottish accent.

"I'm looking for files, while you are all supposed to be destroying equipment." Sonic smirked.

All the members looked around at one another in confusion and then looked back at Sonic. "But Sonic," Rush stepped forward, "there's a lot of valueable equipment here. Why not take some of the weapon for ourselves?" He asked in his thick Texas accent.

Sonic stopped typing for a minute and then looked up at his teammates, "We're mutants. Why would we need weapons?"

"Just in case." Diamond shrugged.

"Fine. Take whatever you please, and destroy the rest." He waved them off and went back to searching the files.

The light of the television flickered in the darkness of the garage, while Sam sat in the darkness watching a surveillance tape of a strange memory that she had thought she had escaped. She let out a sigh as she stared at the carnage of her teammates fighting Chaos, but it wasn't a recent battle; it was long passed.

Sam's hazel-green eyes stared at the television for a moment and then grew in horror when she saw a pale boy on the screen with solid black eyes. "Ghost…" She gasped as she leaned forward towards the television.

She stared at the image of herself as she was fighting off Rush and completely oblivious to Ghost. She felt her heart shatter with every second the video played as she wanted so badly to yell at herself as though it would help her realize that Ghost was in trouble. He was standing so innocently behind a large rock in fear. He was defenseless. He didn't know how to completely control his powers at that moment, but he was still there. He shouldn't have been there… I should have spoken up. She sighed. He was supposed to give X² an upper hand against Chaos. He could have changed the course of mutant kind, and yet he was killed. He was murdered. She thought angrily as she watched Lindsey stay near him as he full heartedly trusted her to protect him.

Sam watched as Lindsey turned towards Ghost and then ran off. What is she doing? She wasn't supposed to leave him. She thought in a mixture of confusion and anger.

She watched as Caution seemed to be leading Sonic closer and closer towards where Ghost was hiding. She pressed her palms against the screen as she watched Lindsey get pinned against the large rock that Ghost was hiding behind by Sonic. There was no sound on the tape, but Sam didn't need sound. Lindsey face said it all; she bargained for her life to be spared.

Sam leaned closer as she watched Sonic release Lindsey and Ghost's face grow in horror as he tried to run. Even though he had no irises, Sam could still see the horror in his eyes. Lindsay chased him down like a helpless baby gazelle being hunted by a lion. She covered his mouth with her hand and held him still, while Sonic stalked towards him.

Sam was so shocked and betrayed that she couldn't feel anger; she couldn't feel anything.

Her hazel-green eyes grew large in horror as she watched Lindsey hold Ghost's defenseless body against hers, while Sonic quickly slid a piece of broken glass across his small neck. Sonic looked to Lindsey and nodded, before walking away to help his other members. Lindsey held Ghost's body against her for a couple more seconds before letting him fall to his knees.

Sam pressed her palms harder against the screen as she stared at Ghost's dying body. Lindsey just stood over him and stared, heartlessly, as he gasped for breath desperately. Sam felt her heart shatter as she watched him clutching his bleeding throat as if trying to gain air, but failing. His hands slowly slid from his neck onto the pool of blood around his small, frail body. His white skin was stained in the crimson gore of his blood.

The X² car pulled to a stop down the street for the science laboratory, and the back door opened up for everyone to get out of. "Everyone understand the plan?" Sean asked as everyone quietly nodded while they stepped out of the car. "Good." He nodded while leading everyone towards the warehouse with Grace by his side.

Sam watched as Lindsey walked away from her destruction as though nothing had happened, Sam stared in horror and the bloody mess left behind. A cold tear rolled down Sam's cheek as she stared at the small corpse she had once sworn to protect.